Scenario: I have 4 cameras in one location and 8 more in a remote location about 4000 km away. All of them are BMD cams of sorts and I want to use one switcher interface to paint them all. Can I use one shield at the origin site to read all of the camera settings for all cameras, sling that down the wire over a private WAN and have a shield on the other end spit out commanding for distribution to my cameras via SDI?

Well iT is. Skaarhoj already does this with there sdi tally iris Control box..

What you are suggesting should be possible.. Takes à lot of programming. Also there are issues that the shield is missing incoming packets.. Tally is data that is send 10 times à second.. But shading data like step up gain.. Could be lost in the process.. So it is not het completely Foolproof

Bug Benjamin. What you want To do could have been done since the release of the shield and an atmega plus ethernet shield..Sending off the network protocol of atem to the Remote arduino and use that as a converter......Mark Gilbert from Strata had No problem taking over My atem by the internet from Engeland..

We control over our network today. That's not in question. The part in question is input from our current switcher which is something we don't do. Instead we have a second system that we control and send the commanding out. Not desired.

So have the shield take SDI input from the ATEM, convert the commands it reads to IP, send it to the remote side and from there we're already OK converting back to commanding on SDI. It's that input side we always seemed to be missing.

AFAIK reading camera settings is not possible. You can controll as many as 253 or 254 cameras simultaneously connected to single SDI network with one SDI controller. You can upload and synchronize all settings to all or some of cameras, but you can not read current camera settings via SDI Shield. It is one directional communication (you can pickup some information from incoming signal - wchich usualy comes from mixer)

Am I wrong? Is there any possibility to read camera settings? Am I missing a part of documentation? It could be great expansion for my SDI Remote&Sequencer prototype.

Anyone have a recommendation for a power supply to be used with this shield? I thought I could use the same as my Arduino, but it has a different size barrel. I'm not seeing the barrel size anywhere in the manual. Thanks!

Hello! I am back with technical question. Is Message grouping working OOB with high level commands like sdiCameraControl.writeVarType? I need to change a lot of camera params in short periods of time (perfectly every frame) - will they group automatically in send buffer before sending or should I use low level commands to fill send buffer manually before sending them to camera on next frame?

I have no URSA Mini, could you help me with shutter settings? When sending a message in group "Video" no 6 (shutter speed (ordinal)) to Ursa - will it iterate through all 10 shutter settings only? From 360 to 45 degree?

We have a BMD Studio Micro camera, that we wanted to control for shading.The otherwise fantastic SKAARHOJ CCU controllers were out of range given our budget.

Instead we decided to try our luck with the BMD Shield, combined with the nice little DIY kit from SKAARHOJ (FaderBoard & Joystick add-on for the Shield).

Initially, we tried going with the faderboard, which connects directly to the top of the shield.The idea was to switch to different operating modes via the 3 buttons.

But - that doesn't work very well when you want to control different parameters with a fixed encoding fader/rotary knob, as we soon discovered!

Instead, I decided to try and use the Joystick, combined with a LCD for parameter readout.To get the extra connections required for combining the BMD Shield, SKAARHOJ Joystick and LCD, we had to upgrade to a Arduino Mege (2560).Thanks to a couple of posts on this forum, we managed to sort the wiring properly.If you look at the schematic, you get a crude idea of the required wiring.

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Please note, that the BMD Shield is connected directly to the top of the Mega! So all wiring runs between Shield, JoystickBoard and LCD.

The LCD unit is just the model (LCM1602C) which was supplied in our Arduino Starterkit. It's a 16X2LCD.

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The code is based on the BMD library's example, "CustomJoystickControl".

As a cheap solution to a shading controller for the Micro, this setup performs great.

bool getJoystickUpdateReady() { // Determines if we are ready for another joystick update (this is // a rate limiter to ensure that the user can slowly adjust the // parameters easily with the joystick)

hello Jakob i am trying to use 3g-sdi shield with an i2c display (with controller HD44780) but when sketch runs the sdiCameraControl.begin () command; the display will no longer work and even Serial.print commands will not work. You have some solution. thank you.